But secondly, there is also a sense in which religious people should try to win in interactions with each other.
The evolutionary forces shaping the ability to win competitive interactions, such as aggressive encounters, are still poorly understood.
Consistent with previous studies of territoriality and aggression in D. melanogaster [1], [15], [22], there were very large overall differences between males of different lines in their propensity to win territorial interactions.
During the lambing period, females who possessed horns were more likely to initiate and win aggressive interactions, independent of age, weight and birthing status.
Asian elephants are endangered [ 51], and neither the wild nor the captive Myanmar populations are self-sustaining [ 52], so if weight does have a strong influence on male elephant mating success, then conservation efforts ideally should be directed towards keeping enough elephants alive until such a time that they are heavy enough to be able to win dominance interactions and attain matings.
The link between agonistic interactions and access to resources may be direct, as when individuals engage in aggressive competition for access to food (Janson 1985a), or indirect, as when individuals avoid engaging in contests with individuals they perceive as likely to win the interaction (Thouless 1990; Vogel 2005).
Given that stable and despotic dominance relationships are thought to emerge when within-group contest competition is strong (Isbell 1991; Sterck et al. 1997), it is possible that rank-related variation in food intake can be associated with low rates of agonism due to subordinates avoiding active contest of food against individuals that are almost sure to win the interaction.
For all interactions reported here, the attacker also won the interaction.
During Phases 2 and 3, other than dominance (defined as the percentage of interactions won by an octopus over the total interactions), we also recorded the following variables: (1) Latency, in seconds (s), as the time elapsed between the removal of the divider and the first interaction between the two conspecifics.
Thus, chemical signals and cues play a large role in determining who eats whom, who mates with whom and who wins in competitive interactions.
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